Quote Originally Posted by CamelCody View Post
I'm sure our Scottish forebears would have followed the law exactly. Lord knows the scots were not one to rebel against the letter of the law. the words 'they must obey' would probably have been antipathy to the them as they should be to us.
They certainly were at least as fast and loose with many laws as their descendants are in the US today. However, at the relevant time, no one played loose with heraldry. Cultural pressure was maybe even a stronger force than the law itself.